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Financial Fair Play designed to prevent football clubs spending beyond their means

The regulations have been challenged by an Italian football agent

Daniel Striani has hired the lawyer who worked with Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman

UEFA's new system of financial regulation faces judgment in the European courts -- but not before 2015.

UEFA, the body which governs soccer in Europe, introduced Financial Fair Play (FFP) at the start of the 2012-13 season as a way of preventing clubs from spending beyond their means and posting unsustainable yearly losses.